Jury Pool Profile

Lubbock County, Texas

Republican +39.6 (2024)

County seat: Lubbock
Judicial district: 72nd District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 328,906; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 318,884.

At a glance

Lubbock County is a 328,906-person venue. The county population is 63% White and 7% Black (Census race-alone categories). 36% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 51.5%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $64,512, $15,211 below the TX state median of $79,723; 33.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 19.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and Chinese. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 25.2% of covered employment, average pay $60,130/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.66%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 65% to 69% of the vote across the three.

Population: 318,884
Median household income: $64,155
Unemployment: 3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 63% / 7%.

Lubbock County has a population of 318,884, with a median age of 31.9. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 63.0%; Black residents 7.4%. Independently, 36.2% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $64,512; 33.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 15.7% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 164,153 51.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 115,556 36.2%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 21,358 6.7%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 7,562 2.4%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 8,618 2.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 468 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 249 0.1%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 920 0.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 31.9

Under 18 74,972 23.5%
18–24 52,191 16.4%
25–44 86,210 27.0%
45–64 63,197 19.8%
65 and over 42,314 13.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $64,512; 90% interval $61,844–$67,180; −$15,211 vs TX · 132nd of 254
Below poverty line: 15.7%; 90% interval 14.0%–17.4%; +2.3 pp vs TX · 101st of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 25% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 25.2% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 21.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.66%, below the Texas state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.7%; −0.66 pp vs. state
County GDP: $19.8B; 0.72% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,583
Establishments: 8,268

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 38,737 25.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 32,926 21.5%
Leisure & hospitality 22,441 14.6%
Professional & business services 13,069 8.5%
Construction 7,944 5.2%
Financial activities 7,255 4.7%
Manufacturing 5,190 3.4%
Other services 4,804 3.1%
Public administration 3,548 2.3%
Information 1,638 1.1%
Natural resources & mining 1,325 0.9%
Unclassified 176 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 90.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 55.5%; −7.1 pp vs TX · 246th of 254
Median gross rent: $1,178; −$225 vs TX · 44th of 254
Owner-occupied: 70,060
Renter-occupied: 56,165

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Moderately concentrated

Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $82,686/yr) pays 3.7× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,425/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Institutional employer scale

Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Texas Tech University	Higher education (state university)	6,418

Showing 1 of 10 employers on the published list(36,021 employees total).

Source: City of Lubbock, Texas, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, Table Q, 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago'. Counts come from a survey by the City's economic analyst covering the Lubbock metropolitan area. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 67%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Lubbock County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 69.3% in 2024, 65.3% in 2020, 66.9% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 124,972 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 86,547 69.3%
Democratic 37,148 29.7%
Other / third-party 1,277 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 60% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 19.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

19.8% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog. Veterans account for 5.0% of the adult civilian population (12,189 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

80.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 49,510 16.6%
Chinese 1,378 0.5%
Tagalog 1,294 0.4%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 613 0.2%
Korean 495 0.2%
Vietnamese 416 0.1%
German or other West Germanic 393 0.1%
Arabic 372 0.1%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 305 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 126,225
Family households: 75,454; 59.8% of households
Married couples w/ children: 20,848; 27.6% of families
Single-mother families: 9,261; 12.3% of families
Veterans: 12,189; 5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

51.2% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 88,766 28.6%
Catholic 39,327 12.7%
Mainline Protestant 16,860 5.4%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 9,556 3.1%
Black Protestant 4,374 1.4%
Orthodox 206 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 86.1%; ±0.9 pp
Uninsured: 13.9%; ±0.9 pp; 191st of 254
With a disability: 13.6%; ±0.5 pp; 184th of 254
Bachelor's or higher: 33.4%; ±1.1 pp; −0.4 pp vs TX · 26th of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 16.6%; 90% interval 15.4%–17.8% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 72nd District Court
Judges: 7 (Total District Court judges with venue over this county; vintage 2026 txcourts.gov directory + Tex. Gov't Code § 24. Texas's court structure is unusual: each urban county has dozens of numbered District Courts (Harris ~60, Dallas ~45, Travis ~25, Bexar ~25, Tarrant ~20) with trial assignments random across the full bench. Rural counties typically have 1-2 District Court judges sitting on a multi-county district. County Court at Law judges (limited jurisdiction) and Constitutional County Court judges (presided over by the elected County Judge) are separately allocated and not counted here. TX has ~474 District Court judges statewide.)
Court seats: Crosbyton, Lubbock

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Lubbock totals, 2024

Traffic fatalities: 51; 20.91 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes: 45

NHTSA FARS 2024